Roaming through methodology. XXVI. The ecological fallacy and its less well-known counterpart, the atomistic fallacy;Dwalingen in de methodologie. XXVI. De ecologische valkuil en zijn minder bekende tegenhanger, de atomistische valkuil

Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde

Volumn 144, Issue 44, 2000, Pages 2097-2100

  Mackenbach, J P ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; REVIEW;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; HUMANS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 0034727487     PISSN: 00282162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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